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  • I think we are making big mistakes ditching it.

    Renewables have two problems that need to be complemented by other type of energy source.

    1.- they take a lot of land. As energy demand increases the amount of land taken is going to reach a limit. Then what?

    2.- Most renewables have low momentum. Mostly only hydro have great momentum. This is critical for net safety. My country recently falled into a total blackout among other things because our energy composition (high on renewables) had low momentum and couldn’t handle some inestabilities.

    For a complementary energy source we have 2 options, burning coal/gas or nuclear. Out of two options I prefer nuclear Sadly every country that ditched nuclear because “renewables are the future” ended upping up their gas/coal consumption for energy production. Most famous example being Germany.

    I do think a mix of renewables and nuclear is the future we need to achieve.

    Sadly most western societies only look on the short term. And a good national nuclear plant is a long term investment, most governments won’t look so far after the next election, so here we are.








  • Lower birthrates are less an issue that people think.

    For any living being self replication can explode incredibly fast, and it’s usually the case when numbers dwindle, due more resources available per person.

    Big birth numbers are more worrying and limited resources lead to fast “too little resources for everyone” situation.

    I remember reading that part of what took Europe our of the dark ages after the black plague was that survivors thrived in an post plague environment. Also remember reading that dutch population growth actually taller because after so many people died survivors got more meat and food in general available to them, so their children grew a lot.

    So in general I’m always more worry about high birthrates than low birthrates.


  • Imagine you want to scale your desktop at 125%.

    On X11 it was really hard to so so, and not very good. It basically worked by doing some strange tricks with the resolution, tanking performance and making it having numerous visual bugs, screen tearing or blurry fonts. And you often had to close and open the session for it to apply.

    With wayland is possible to have fractional scaling without those issues. With crisps fonts, performant, and everything just working as expected. Also it could change easily within the session.

    But wayland allowing for it doesn’t mean that all compositors have implemented it. Most still have issues. I think KDE was one of the fews that just recently anounced that they solved that problem and that you can scale the desktop without any worries.